From

Location

Message

Date Posted

Pumpkintown, SC

Has anyone successfully grown out, 2 separate plants from a single seed(embryo)?
You might say I am turning our dicots into monocots.
I wonder (provided I can successfully accomplish this), when I cross them together, will this be a sib or a self, lol. I'll keep you posted, BF


hypocotyl Cots successfully split,

7/18/2010 3:22:40 AM

3 acre corner in Whittaker,Mi USA ([email protected])

I guess that it would be considered a clone of its self at a very early stage in its infancy....wouldn't it?....hmmm interesting if it worked out!

7/18/2010 4:20:28 AM

Anchorage, Alaska

That is a great idea! Unfortunately dicots only have one growing tip so wouldn't you need to play around with a hormone or two to get a second? I suppose if you waited until the first true leaf to separate them then it would be possible to get a quick second, but splitting the tap root would be a very tricky business.

7/18/2010 9:01:07 AM

Iowa

I did ask the question to Carlson this spring....It would be intresting to run out both a front & back main. And at some point remove the stump area so you would have two plants....set a pumpkin on both...hmmmm!

7/18/2010 9:12:25 AM

Germany

it is "self"

7/18/2010 2:08:00 PM

Las Cruces NM

it would depend on how you turned dicot into monocot, but if identical twins they would have same genes and so I would say they would be roughly s self ... other type of p=twin would be roughly same as sib ... and if due to a mad science experiment, you just have mutant-A X mutant-B ... much differentiation ... believe rule is mutants tend to be a defect with occasional exception-ism.

7/18/2010 2:40:11 PM

Long Island,New York

I did this in 2005...both had similar fruit but not identical by any stretch of the imagination. I called it "southerned". Never grew it out.
http://bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=33067

7/18/2010 8:41:49 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

Yeah, it's a self, I'm just having some fun. Glenn, on yours, did you go ahead and split the radicle or simply grow them back to back, BF

7/19/2010 10:28:31 PM